Obsidian Entertainment, the team behind classic role-playing games like Fallout: New Vegas, Pillars Of Eternity, and The Outer Worlds, is no stranger to creating the perfect sidekick. Making sure quieter moments are filled by characters players care about is as important as the rest of the role-playing experience, particularly when you’ll be spending dozens of hours with them across sprawling imaginative worlds.
In Avowed, Obsidian set out to make its most in-depth companions yet. Its cast of four party members is unusually small, but according to game director Carrie Patel, the narrowed roster allowed the game’s writing and narrative focus to be tighter than ever. She tells Inverse that Alex Garland’s 2018 sci-fi film Annihilation was the unlikely inspiration for Avowed’s tight-knit crew.
